Buhari sacks AEDC management
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of the management of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC).
He approved a new interim governing board appointed to oversee the day-to-day operations of the electricity distribution company.
His actions followed the recent industrial action embarked on by its members of staff over non-payment of arrears of pensions, allowances, salaries and promotion.
The sack of the management team conveyed by the Presidency to the Federal Ministry of Power takes immediate effect.
Minister of State for Power, Mr Goddy Jedy Agba disclosed this in a statement yesterday.
The Minister of Power Aliyu Abubakar and Agba had earlier on intervened through dialogue with the Ministry of Labour, Bureau of Public Enterprises, and the Nigerian Union of Electricity Employees, (NUEE), to resolve and call off the 14-hour strike action.
The statement recalled the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kogi, Nasarawa, Kaduna and parts of Edo states were in total blackout between 7:00 a.m. and about 8:00 p.m. on Monday following an industrial action by the members of staff of AEDC.
The statement reads in part: “The presidential directives as conveyed has also directed the Bureau of Public Enterprises to set up a new management team of the AEDC. However, in a memorandum of understanding (MoU), jointly signed by the Minister of State for Power Goddy Jedy Agba, the Chairman Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC0, Sanusi Garba, Director-General Bureau of Public Enterprises, Alex Okoli, Comrade Joe Ajaero on behalf of the union, the Federal Government has ordered the suspension of the strike, given 21 days within which the outstanding emoluments and entitlements of members of staff will be paid.
“The government has described the non-performance and incompetence of the AEDC as a national embarrassment, saying the suspension of the management team subsists until further notice.”
The Headquarters in zone 4, Abuja was calm yesterday when The Nation visited there soon after the announcement of the suspension of the management.
The Chairman of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), FCT chapter, Comrade Godfrey Aba, who spoke to The Nation on the suspension on phone, said it was at the government’s discretion.
He added that: “We told them we are not a party to it. It was at their discretion. If they think that is good for the company, it is good as far as they meet our requirements.”
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